Episode Thirty-Three: Primogeniture

In which new strands unravel. Featuring: a mishap, an adventurer, and an angry denizen of the deep.

Episode description: Who are these new voices? And what happened to Anna and Mabel?

Episode Overview
The citizens of King's County flit across the airwaves.

Trigger Warnings

 * Screaming, distortion, gunshots, unreality, arguments, death, gore, abuse.

Episode Summary
We hear a repeat of Brandon's death from Temporal Snake before cutting to meet Janet Kirk, a podcaster who is breaking into the Martin House on Friday the 13th. She tells her listeners the 'urban legend' of Anna's death and describes the House before falling in a pile of leaves and being deeply confused on how the leaves moved like that.

A burst of distortion brings us to a very unhappy Mabel Martin, screaming in pain, as Anna tries to figure out what happened. Mabel screams at her not to touch her and it cuts away again.

We then meet Aconite, who speaks about the Court being unhappy with Anna's ascent to the throne.

While Anna attempts to yank the bullet out of Mabel's arm, the two of them fight and then talk, before Mabel passes out .Anna drags Mabel to a safer place and we hear a recording from Subject 4583, who seems to literally explode as he's experimented on. Anna then tells a still-unconscious Mabel that the House gave her a tape deck full of SD cards, which only played loud noise. Anna explains to Mabel that she is all that matters to her, and Mabel wakes up. Shedrinks some collodial silver, and the two of them lie down for a rare moment of domesticity.

Cutting back to Aconite, she explains that she has a place on the throne over Anna, because Aconite is the first and only child of the King Under the Hill. This means she has absolute primogeniture for the kingdom over anyone else-- the throne belongs to her.

The episode ends.

Continuity
''' Please note that this section contains spoilers for later episodes of Mabel. Continue at your own risk. '''


 * The repeat of the gunshot wound from Temporal Snake allows the listener to remember season four, seeing as Infinity Mirror took place in between episodes 32 & 33.
 * Mabel chugging silver shows a contrast of her eventually-revealed allergy to iron.
 * This is Anna's first "I Am So In Love With Mabel Martin It Might Actually Kill Me" since episode 32. How did she ever survive without being to ramble about how much she loves her wife?

Trivia
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 * HERE THEY ARE HERE THEY ARE HERE THEY ARE HIIIII JANET HIIIII ACONITE - the wiki curator, #1 janet and aconite stan, who is letting themself leave this happy note and break the professional air of this page
 * Aconite's voice actress' audition piece was reading a section of The Mask by WB Yeats.
 * Janet canonically plays Yu-Gi-Oh.